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One of the finest novels we have ever read,a book that you will remember long after you have finished it.The "Fox" is Sir Walter Ralegh.The whole panorama of Elizabethan England comes to life,from Elizabeth and the intriguing courtiers around her,to the rough seamen who sailed with Ralegh.Central to it all is the fasinating figure of Ralegh,a ma... more »n who played out with courage and gallantry a drama in which the stakes were almost inevitably death.« less